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She seemed a simple ship, common enough. The voyage seemed routine, a simple trip across the Atlantic to deliver her cargo. However, before the journey...

Explained: A research group has established the location of the MV Blythe Star shipwreck, which sank off the coast of Tasmania over 50 years ago

The story of the Mary Celeste’s missing crew is a 135-year-old unsolved maritime mystery.

I was inspired to write this list because I am in the Navy and have spent a lot of time at sea. Although most of the time it is quite boring, I have had the opportunity to see some beautiful, amazing and sometimes strange things. Finding an abandoned Catamaran in the middle of the Atlantic with no signs of life on board apart from some recently caught fish, and finding a 100 year old buoy that had been drifting undiscovered for decades are two that come to my mind right now.

What events happened on 4 December in history? Dominic Sandbrook rounds up the events, births and deaths…